Let's take a look at what Isaiah 28 really means and it has NOTHING to do with how to study the Bible and the next time it comes up, you'll be armed for a nice rebuttal.
New International Version
Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah
1Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley—
to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
2See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind,
like a driving rain and a flooding downpour,
he will throw it forcefully to the ground.
3That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, will be trampled underfoot.
4That fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley,
will be like figs ripe before harvest—
as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
they swallow them.
Translation: YHVH is really angry with the Tribe of Ephraim
5In that day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown,
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant of his people.
6He will be a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment,
a source of strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Translation: But not forever and it will all work out someday
7And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer:
Priests and prophets stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth.
Translation: Your Priests are a bunch of beer guzzling, wine chugging dolts who can't think, see drunken visions, muck up decisions and puke all over the place too often.
9“Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk,
to those just taken from the breast?
Translation: Who are these guys trying to kid. Who do they think they are teaching...mere babies and children?
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for thata ; a little here, a little there.”
Translation: For these drunks say, do this, do that, follow this rule, follow that rule, a little bit of this, a little bit of that...blah blah blah blah blah....
11Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,
“This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;
and, “This is the place of repose”—
but they would not listen.
13So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there—
Translation: Fine, that's the way you want it? It could have been nice and you could have rest, but if this is the way you want it. You want to talk strange and babble at the people? Then I'll send some folks your way that will talk strange and babble to you. I can play "blah blah blah blah blah" with you just as you play it with the people.
so that as they go they will fall backward;"
Translation: So you'll fall flat on your asses and it will hurt as you are caught and taken away.
No magic formula on how to study the Bible here! So next time you hear "for it is line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little" quoted as the way to find the hidden mysteries and doctrines of the Bible, realize the minister is quoting beer sodden, wine loopy, table puking priests who can't make their own words make sense to the people and thus God will repay them unkindly in kind with his own version of "So you want blah blah blah blah blah...? Well here it comes in the form of an equally strange speaking foreign people that are going to sweep you away.
Now...let's all take our hymnals and rise....
